Chapter I: Part IX: National Highways

[Frontispiece: THE VOYAGEURS ON A MISTY MORNING. From a painting by Verner]

ALL AFLOAT

A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways

by

WILLIAM WOOD

Toronto Glasgow, Brook & Company 1915

Copyright in all Countries subscribing to the Berne Convention

TO

THE PETRYS

EACH AND ALL

IN TOKEN OF

A FAMILY FRIENDSHIP

FOUR GENERATIONS STRONG {ix}

CONTENTS

Page

I. A LAND OF WATERWAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. CANOES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
III. SAILING CRAFT; THE PIONEERS . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
IV. SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE FLEURS-DE-LIS . . . . . . 54
V. SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE UNION JACK . . . . . . . . 68
VI. SAILING CRAFT: THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP . . . . . . 82
VII. SAILING CRAFT: 'FIT TO GO FOREIGN' . . . . . . . . 92
VIII. STEAMERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
IX. FISHERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
X. ADMINISTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
XI. NAVIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

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[Transcriber's note: The page numbers below are those in the original book. However, in this e-book, to avoid the splitting of paragraphs, the illustrations may have been moved to preceding or following pages.]

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE VOYAGEURS ON A MISTY MORNING . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
From a painting by Verner.

THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Facing page_ 12
By Lorado Taft, in the Chicago Art Institute.

SHIPS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY . . . . . . . . . . . " 44
From Winsor's 'America.'

CHAMPLAIN'S SHIP, THE 'DON DE DIEU' . . . . . . . . " 54
From the model at the Quebec Tercentenary.

A FRENCH FRIGATE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . . . . . " 64
From Winsor's 'America.'

SHIP 'BATAVIA,' 2000 TONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . " 92
Built by F.-X. Marquis at Quebec, 1877. Lost
on Inaccessible Island, 1879. From a picture
belonging to Messrs Ross and Co., Quebec.

TRANSPORT 'BECKWITH' AND BATEAUX, LAKE ONTARIO, 1816 " 136
From the John Ross Robertson Collection,
Toronto Public Library.

THE 'ROYAL WILLIAM' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " 140
From the original painting in possession of the
Literary and Historical Society of Quebec.

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